Another pattern of the film noir is the urban setting which has dark and/or wet streets. Take for example the scene when Mike leaves for the bus station, for the flower box, the street outside his apartment is wet.

What might be rather bothering is the narration, the voice is not the most pleasant one, and some may find the information in it too much. But we can not ignore that it is an important to the film's structure, the description sounds like the narrator's a reporter looking back on the past events with objectivity.

Definitely ingenious because it relies heavily on flashbacks, and is telling things out of order depending on which character is involved with the heist; in spite of these nonlinear sequences it is very straightforward, very unique for its time.

Kubrick is the master in creating tension in his plots, playing with time, he takes each...
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